Car-door fastener.



I I v 7 PATENTED JUNE 2, 1908. O. G. HARRINGTON. GAR DOOR PASTBNER.

APPLIOATION FILED JARBL 1908.

, To all whom 'tt may concern:

CLEMENT G, HARRINGTON, OF MAILEWOOD, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN GAR& FOUNDRY COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OFNEW JERSEY.

' CAB-DOOR FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2. 1908.

Application filed January 31, 1908. Serial No. 413,574.

136 it known that I, CLEMENT G. HARRING- TON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Maplewood, St. Louis county, Missouri, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Car-Door Fasteners, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact desori tion, such as will enableOthers skilled in t e art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which Figure ,1 isa side elevation of a portionof a car showing my improved car door fastener in operative osition;Fig. 2 is a top plan View of said'iastener; Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view of the device on the door with Whichthe seal in on thehasp cooperates;

and Fig. 4 is a etail perspective view'of thedevice that I employ forsecuring the hasp' to the side wall of the car.

. This invention relates to car door fasteners, and has for its-objectto provide a device of the character described that is of simpleconstruction and in which the seal pin on the hasp will not be liabletojump out of the staple or cooperating memberon the door when the seal.is not in position.

Other desirable features of my invention will be hereinafter described.

' Referring to the drawings which illustrate the preferred form of myinvention, 1" designates a hasp provided with a cylindrical seal ill-2that cooperates with a memberon the cor, and 3 designates an enlargedportion of the outer end'of the hasp in which an opening is formed. Theseal pin 2' into said opening and the lower I en 'end' withscrew-threads 6 which receive a nut 7 located on the inside of the carwall,

upon t in the seal in 2.

(projects of said pin is spaced away from the lower side of saidopening. The hasp is connected to-the or Webs 12 that merge into thehead 10, as shown in Fig. 3. The bolt 9.passes through an opening in thecar door and'is retained in position by means of a nut 13 located on theinside of the door, and the wings or webs 12 on the shank of the boltare sunk into the door and prevent said bolt from turning or to carrythe The pin 2 on the hasp is provided with a slot shown in dotted linesin Figs. 1 and 2 to recei'vea seal such as is generally used with a cardoor fastener, and the flanges 3 at the sides of the opening in theenlarged portion 3 of the has are also provided with slots or openings trough which the seal passes sons to overcome the possibility of the sealbeing drawn up through the eye of the bolt 9 as might occur a short sealwere placed merely Even when'a seal is not in the pin 2, owever, saidpin cannot become accidentally displaced or jump out of the e ebolt onthe door because the hasp is provi ed with a portion that extends acrossthe lower end of said pin. 1

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

A carv door fastener comprising a cast metal hasp provided with anenlarged portion in which an opening is formed, a laterally projectingflange at the upper side of said opening, a seal pin projectingdownwardly from said flange into said opening and pro'vided with a slotfor receiving a removable seal, and laterally projecting flanges at thesides of said opening provided with slots through which the seal isadapted to pass; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses, this twenty-ninth day of January, 1908.

. CLEMENT G. HARRINGTON.

Witnesses:

WELLS L. CHURon, Gnomes BAKEWELL.

